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For bariatric surgery programs, the clinical procedure itself is often the most predictable part of the patient experience. What’s far more complex – and far more fragile – is everything that happens before a patient ever reaches the operating room.
In this special solo episode, hosts Joshua Liu, MD and Alan look back on their trip to Chicago for Becker's 2026 Annual IT + RCM Conference. They share the week's adventures, their first in-person Digital Patient meetup, and their own experiments with AI agents. They also go through standout ideas from speakers at Ochsner, Rush, Northwestern and more: why a human in the loop isn't enough, the burnout risk of practicing at the top of your license, why pilots don't automatically scale, why healthcare needs to get better at turning technology off, and more...
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, NI‑BC, Vice President and Chief Digital Applications Officer at Penn Medicine, about "What Happens When Nurses Start Charting Out Loud for AI, The 3-Tier Rule for When AI Needs a Human in the Loop, Why More Communication Won't Fix AI Adoption, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Stacey Johnston, MD, MHA, CHCIO, Chief Information and Digital Execution Officer at Beacon Health System, about "Pushing Oracle to Its AI Limits, The Agent That Ordered 7,000 Colon Screenings and Caught Cancer Early, What If You Spent More on Tech Than on Recruiting, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Hasan Ahmad, DO, MBA, MSc, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Parkview Health, about "Why Deleting Alerts Is the Safest Thing You'll Do This Year, Three Questions Every AI Tool Must Answer Before Go-Live, Why Clinician Resistance Is Usability Feedback and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Amish Desai, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, Population Health at Northwestern Medicine, about "Making 2,500 AI Calls in 5 Days that Patients Loved, The Scale-First Rule That Kills Pilotitus, Why You Should Judge AI by the Alternative, and more..."
Josh and Alan reunite for a “solo” episode to recap their adventures at AMDIS 2026 in Ojai, CA. They dive deep on how health systems are moving from AI Anxiety to AI Ops, What the EHR Might Look in 2030, the Uber That Nearly Escaped Them at the Spa, and more...
We are excited to highlight an innovation that doesn’t get talked about enough in digital health: not just delivering a great patient program, but building the infrastructure to prove it’s working. The teams at North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) and Timmins and District Hospital (TADH) have done exactly that — creating a Power BI dashboard that merges EHR outcomes data with SeamlessMD enrollment data to generate near real-time insight into the impact of their digital care programs.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Zsolt Kulcsar, DO, MPH, MBA, CPE, Vice President, Virtual Health at Emory Healthcare, about "Why Virtual Health Needs Its Own Department, The "Doc of the Day" That Frees Clinic Space, Why Virtual Care Is More Primed for AI Than the Exam Room, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Pranav Jain, MD, MBA, Chief Health Information Officer at Wellstar Health System, about "What Ambient Rollouts Get Wrong About the Care Model, How AI Fluency Creates 10X Clinicians, The One Clinical Skill You Cannot Automate, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Information Officer at Inova Health, about "50x'ing IT Adoption Through Physician Bonuses, The Reason Ambient's Biggest Win Isn't Time Savings, Why Your EHR Will Soon Know Your Patients Better Than You, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Ryan Sadeghian, MD, MBA, MSc, former Enterprise Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Toledo, about why you shouldn't "Outsource Your AI Thinking, The Reason Clinical AI Tools Die After the Pilot, Why Nobody Is Auditing Whether Documentation Was Ever the Right Measure of Care, and more..."